Henrik Hemrin @hehemrin@librem.one

BREAKING: The Taliban have banned women from universities.

This is a shameful decision that violates the right to education for women and girls in Afghanistan. The Taliban are making it clear every day that they don't respect the fundamental rights of Afghans, especially women.

An irregular reminder that calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent you a GMail."

"Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a better term.

Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/

(kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)

There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.

#TwitterMigration #NewHere

We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!

We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).

Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

Vattenfall bygger just nu världens största havsbaserade vindkraftspark i Nederländerna. Nederländerna har en tydlig plan, för att få tio gånger så mycket el från vinden som idag redan 2030, 21 Gigawatt. Hör mer om hur det ska gå till i mitt reportage i Studio Ett. https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/har-byggs-varldens-storsta-havsvindkraftpark

The reason Mastodon and the Fediverse is spread out on so many servers is it protects it from being taken over by anyone. Not even the richest can buy this place.

Centralised services like Twitter are incredibly easy to buy out. If you move from Twitter to another centralised service, sooner or later that will get bought out too.

The point of the Fediverse is to break this buyout cycle, to let people be permanently in control of their accounts. More info here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/mastodon-and-the-fediverse-beginners-start-here/#whyisthefediverseonsomanyseparateservers

Football governing body FIFA is set to earn US$ 7.5 billion in revenue from the #WorldCup.

Host Qatar spent some US$ 220 billion on it.

Yet many of the migrant workers who built the stadiums and tournament infrastructure have not been paid.

And thousands of them died or suffered injuries while working, yet they & their families received no compensation.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/16/fifas-best-world-cup-ever-came-migrant-workers-loss

The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CNN and Associated Press have all posted guides to using Mastodon, which in turn have been syndicated by numerous local news outlets. That matters. We're rapidly approaching a situation where the media will refer to things happening "on Mastodon" the way they referred to Twitter in, say, 2013.